Sh2-126 - 2 systems - insane LP - 34h of data and a Gecko uncovered (Axel)

Celestial hemisphere: Northern · Constellation: Lacerta (Lac) · Contains: The star 10Lac · The star 12Lac · The star 8Lac

Sh2-126 - 2 systems - insane LP - 34h of data and a Gecko uncovered, Axel

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Sh2-126 - 2 systems - insane LP - 34h of data and a Gecko uncovered

Link: http://apod.grag.org/2021/10/25/sh2-126-the-hidden-gecko/

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Sh2-126 - 2 systems - insane LP - 34h of data and a Gecko uncovered

Link: http://apod.grag.org/2021/10/25/sh2-126-the-hidden-gecko/

Another cool project with my friend Victor Van Puyenbroeck (https://www.astrobin.com/users/VicV/).
We pointed our two widefiled systems (135mm and 200mm both with ASI 1600MM) at the Gecko (Sh2-126) knowing how faint it is and taking into account LP (bortle 8/7).
On the paper the challenge looked quite significant but you know what: where would be the fun without huge hurdles to overcome

Victor shot HaRGB data while I shot LHaRGB data and we totalled 34h of data.
34h of data is significant but given how faint the target is and how strong the LP is, we ended with a barely decent dataset.

Pre-processing in APP and PI
Processing in PI

This image took me a significant amount of time and many iterations to reach a decent balance.

I'm quite happy with the result tbh.

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